Donald Trump says China's coronavirus numbers seem 'on the light side'

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Trump told a daily briefing by his coronavirus task force that he had not received an intelligence report on China's data. coronavirus

Trump, who has toned down his criticism of China's handling of the virus outbreak since the call, also said the US relationship with China was "very good" and both sides wanted to maintain multi-billion dollar trade deal reached earlier this year.Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, told the same briefing Washington was "just not the position to confirm any of the numbers that are coming out of China.

"There's lots of public reporting on whether the numbers are too low," he said. "You got access to those reports that are coming out of Chinese social media ... we just have no way to confirm any of those numbers. Earlier, Michael McCaul, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, accused Beijing of hiding the true number of those impacted. He said he had called for the State Department to investigate Beijing's "initial cover up and subsequent actions regarding this pandemic."

The Bloomberg report cited unidentified US officials as saying that a classified report, received by the White House last week, concluded that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths was intentionally incomplete. China reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday and for the first time disclosed the number of cases of people who have the highly contagious disease but do not show symptoms.

 

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Can Trump trust his intelligence service? Look what happened to Iraq

Trump is more concern abt China more than his Country Usa which is leading right now its not his jurisdiction to check the statistics there he must 1st prevent the casualties in the States Coronavirus.

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